Podcast: Famous At Home

When it comes to cultivating a healthy home, emotional safety is everything. In this episode, Josh and Christi describe why talking about emotions and building an emotional vocabulary matters. In covering Decision #3: Talk About Emotions,

Would you say the atmosphere of your home is life-giving? Every home has an atmosphere, and we influence our atmosphere every day by how we think, act, and treat those we love. That’s what decision #2 is all about: Changing Your Atmosphere: How to Cult…

We made it to the seven decisions to becoming famous at home! In this episode, Josh and Christi begin discussing part 3 of their new book Famous at Home. Let’s be honest, we don’t show up well for our spouse and kids when we’re not doing well.

You can pretty much sum up all of parenting research into one primary conclusion: Our kids become who we are. That’s why we don’t like using the word “parenting” to describe our task of raising kids to become great adults. Instead,

We all have opponents in our marriage that fight against marital intimacy. These can be both good (kids, a move) and bad (job loss, financial difficulty) things. The problem is when we fail to name the opponent,

Our “willingness” to change is such a catch 22. On one hand, we say we’re willing to start working out, but when it comes down to it, we usually end up in the same behavior patterns that kept us from working out to begin with.

All of us long for significance. Where we find our significance plays a role in how truly present we are with our loved ones. We don’t show up well at home when we confuse our identity with things like work, accomplishments, who we hang out with,

There’s a powerful verse in Habakkuk that Christi had postered on her bedroom wall as a little girl. The verse itself, Habakkuk 2:1, talks about standing at a watchpost and positioning oneself on top of the tower to see what God has to say.

Your biggest fans live under your roof. They follow your every move and their eyes are always on you. But they’re also always for you. In this episode, we explore chapter 3 of our new book, Famous at Home, in a little more depth.

We all have a chase. When we don’t allow ourselves to go back and heal parts of our story, we run the risk of misunderstanding the meaning of our current reality. When this happens, it’s too easy to be enticed by external affirmation that pulls us away…